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What can and cannot I use PIP for?

Hi I am in recipt of pip and have been told that I can only use it for cleaning. Is there a definition on what I can and cannot use it for.
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Good Afternoon & Welcome it’s great to meet you today.
We have got some info on “pip” below for you:
https://search.scope.org.uk/s/redirect?collection=scope-meta&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scope.org.uk%2Fsupport%2Fdisabled-people%2Fbenefits%2Fpip&index_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scope.org.uk%2Fsupport%2Fdisabled-people%2Fbenefits%2Fpip&auth=OdCmUepX8Eu01lD6Q10Fhg&profile=_default&rank=1&query=Pip
Please please have a good look 👀 at the above info & please let me know if you need any further assistance????
Disability Gamechanger - 2019
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is extra money to help you with everyday life if you’ve an illness, disability or mental health condition. There are no rules on what you can and cannot spend it on.
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However some people just lump it together with the other household monies to pay bills which is OK if those bills are higher because of a disability.
Some see it also as a passport to claim more money if claiming a means tested benefit.
That said, research shows most people use it as an earnings replacement benefit to cover the reduced value of their other benefits.
I am very surprised by the comment regarding cleaning as this is generally something not covered and not provided for in ANY benefit. Is your Social Worker a trainee by any chance? I found that, depending on department, some Social Workers are not given very good initial training and a new, young Social Worker I was allocated a couple of years ago knew very little about what she was and was not supposed to deal with. Any advice she gave me was pretty much worthless.
TK